One week on, district hospital has run out of anti-rabies vaccine

Agra | Friday | 23rd February, 2018

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AGRA: District hospital here has run out of anti-rabies vaccine, which is administered free of cost to patients. The vaccination is administered at the hospital itself.District hospital’s superintendent Dr Subodh Kumar said the hospital’s stock of anti-rabies vaccine got over a week ago. For the past one week, patients are relying on supply of the vaccine by a local NGO. One doctor said, “The vaccine is given on zero day (when dog bites the person), third day, seventh day, 14th day, 30th day and 90thday. “Many times, I have read in newspapers about the unavailability of the vaccine stock..